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We Have Identified Plants That Can Cure Aids

Nigeria

Vanguard (Lagos)

31 May 2007
Posted to the web 31 May 2007

I wonder if Drs. Pandey and Badejo know each other... can you just imagine the PR if there was some collaboration (see below) announced? OK, so I am a dreamer, but you have to have a dream to make a dream come true... just ask the Doctors involved herein IMO. We do know Xechem/Pandey have had interest in this direction of Aids/Herbal. ... chill up my spine lol

Jude Njoku
Lagos

Dr. Solomon Olufunmilayo Badejo is an accomplished Forester and Wood Technologist who, single handedly, developed some innovative process technologies for use of wood waste, notably saw dust in the manufacture of building materials like floor tiles, wall tiles, ceiling boards, roofing sheets and partitioning panels. An insatiable academician and strict disciplinarian, Dr Badejo is currently the Acting Executive Director, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, 0yo State.

In a recent interaction with newsmen, Dr. Badejo, who was introduced as an untiring researcher, spoke on the major breakthroughs recorded by the Institute. According to him, the Institute has discovered some plants that have the potentials of curing the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids). Dr Badejo, who recalled how members of his family were discouraged when he got admission to read Forestry in the university, explained that today, he is the envy of his people because of his numerous research findings.


"We have well over 107,000 Nigerian plants collected and preserved for knowledge and industrial uses. In the area of forest herbarium (FHI), ours is the largest forest herbarium in West Africa. It is known all over the world. In this Institute, we conduct quality research in the areas of appropriate medicinal uses of some of the plants identified. We should actually be a partner to most pharmaceutical plants", he said.

Dr Badejo explained that "this is the singular reason why we receive programme support and acclaim from various international agencies like African Plant Initiative based in London".

"It was from this good work of the Forest Herbarium Ibadan, (FHI) that we have been able to identify the plant that has the potential of curing Aids and a number of other ailments and diseases. Our predicament here is enormous because there is a limit to what we can do based on mandate of government, but, with mere identification of uses, pharmaceutical firms can take over from there, look into these plants and go into formulations and synthesis of a number of drugs from there", he said.

The Forestry Research Institute boss, who frowned at the apathy of most Nigerians to locally produced materials, urged indigenous pharmaceutical firms to do more to synthesize drugs from these identified plants.

On the Institute's part, Dr Badejo assured that "research on the preservation of some of these important medicinal plants would be done so they don't go into extinction; most especially, the identified plants for curing Aids is vigorously being pursued as most of them are endangered".


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